Washing-machine



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEErcE.

\VILLIAM PHELPS AND C. WRIGHT, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,244, dated October 2, 1860.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VTLLIAM PHELPs and CLARK WRIGHT, both of Sycamore,Dekalb county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inVashing-Machines; and we hereby declare the following to be a full andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification.

Our said invention consists in a peculiar arrangement hereinafterdescribed of one smooth board and one corrugated rubber fixed obliquelyin opposite outside corners of each of a series of chambers mounted onthe extremities of revolving arms, to increase the eiiiciency of themachine.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l represents a side elevation of ourimproved machine partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan.

A is a frame affording journal bearing to a shaft B rotated by a crank Cand carrying radial arms D.

E are a series of chambers attached to the ends of the arms D andsuitably jointed and fastened to render them effectually water tight.

F is a door placed near the vertical side of each chamber to theinterior.

G is a smooth board fixed in one corner of each chamber at an angle ofabout 2295 `degrees with the adjacent side.

H is a corrugated rubber' attached on t-he same side at the opposite endof the chamber at an angle of about forty five degrees.

The operation is as follows: Each of the chambers being supplied withclothing, water, soap and (if desired) with a quantity of shot oranalogous material to increase the rubbing action, the frame C isrotated in the direction indicated by the red arrow carrying with it thechambers E. The blue arrows indicate the motion of the contents of thechambers. The clothes falling by their center of one giving accessgravity upon the board G are thereby turned over and as the framecontinues to revolve fall with force upon the rubber H, a new side ofthe clothes being presented to the action of the rubber at eachrevolution. By this means the clothes are freed of their impurities in avery short time and without being subjected to any violence.

rI`he construction and arrai'igement of the parts above describedexhibit the following advantages: The use of a number of chambersenables a number of different kinds of clothes to be washed at once, andrenders the motion easier, by the contents of opposite chambersbalancing each other. The rectangular form of the chambers and thepositions of the boards therein produce a. succession of forcibleconcussions by the continuous rotary movement of the machine. Thecombined .action of the boards G and H effectuallyl reverses theposition of the clothes and exposes a new surface at every revolution,the lifter receiving the clothes as they fall to that end keeping themnearer the center of rotation and causing them sooner to fall toward therubber.

The doors are placed near the center of the vertical sides of thechambers to avoid leak-l age either by centrifugal action or by the flowof water in Contact with the joints.

The following is what we claim as new and of our invention herein as animprovement in washing machines:

The described arrangement of a smooth board G and a corrugated rubber Hfixed obliquely in opposite outside corners of each of a series ofchambers mounted on the extremities of revolving arms, the said parts

